The Crotone Gazette
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marco Meli
144 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Crotone lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Cristian Andreoni out for 58 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Crotone will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Crotone
Guido Gomez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Crotone
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Crotone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Gallo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Filippo De Simone joins the Crotone first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Filippo De Simone is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Crotone promote Matteo Fabbri from within
- Market Francesco Cattaneo steps up from the Crotone academy
- Market Fabrizio Bernardi steps up from the Crotone academy
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Crotone